Totally Speedway Write Up

Hi All, Just an update to say go out and grab the latest Totally Speedway Magazine. There is a great write up on the Limited Sprint Car Club. If you can't find a copy because Chris Dicker and Steve Crabbe have brought out the whole of WA's just send Daniel Powell a message on daniel@redlinemedia.com.au or 0432 126 210 and he can get a copy to you. Crabby JNR

Just checking if this thing still works.

Hi all, Well getting myself ready for the Knoxville yearly trip and thought I had better get my blogging skills back up and running. So lets see if this old technology stuff still works. Unofficially from me- not from the committee. We have had 2 x meetings to discuss the specs for division 2, we have come up with what we think is a good starting point and this will be tabled before the committee on sunday the 7th July for consideration. Carnarvon have 6 Limited Spec cars now running, and they are looking to add 2 more cars to this division next year, several seasons ago they had a round of Limited racing pencilled in their calander and they have asked for a spot again, still to be presented to the committee, but a good sign that our message is getting out there. Geraldton still continues to be the strong point for Limiteds, with a car count that would be envied by all sprintcar divisions, this really shows what the Geraldton Club are capable of, good solid people putting in a huge effort. Our itinerary for this year is- New york for Janette's rest and recreation, Annette and Dave Padmore are coming with us, dont worry Dave I know a good Irish Bar one block from the hotel for hiding while the ladies shop. Cold Corona and great food. Then to Knoxville for the Open Nationals, then Annette and Dave go home, Janette and I are travelling on to Pennsylvania to catch up with "The Posse", taking tours of Panchos, RUPW and the Winters factory, a bit of site seeing around Harrisburg and Gettysburg, but most importantly we will be watching "The Posse" show at 3 local tracks, usually a feast of open and 358 cars. We then head back to New York and Peter and Mariah are coming over, we do a few more days with them and then who knows, if we need to we will head back, if not I would love to go to Calistoga, want to stand next to the Garry Patterson plaque, shed a tear for my hero,see the spot that claimed the life of the great man and dream of days gone by, a bit like standing in the middle of the grassed area that used to be Claremont Speedway, it is hard to just stand there without being drawn back to the sounds and smells of a great long past era. OK back to reallity. Guys if you want a shirt or a tourist item email me, happy to grab something and post it home. Crabby.

A small correction.

My apologies to Jason Craig and Peter MacNamara, Jason was the winner of division 2, Peter was runner up. Crabby

Bunbury 15th December 2012

Howdy all, long time no blog. Well a great night was had by most in Bunbury last night, racing was hard and intense, some fast pace,some heartbreaking DNFs, and a couple of small crashes. First and foremost 2 of the clubs shed racers made it back on the track, Paul Miller and Peter Wodj, wonder when Mary will come out of the shed to complete the BAND of oldies? The track was nice, some say rough but it was ok for me. The drag racer Ronnie Wilson continues to improve, the young guns are learning their craft, and as usual there has to be a dickhead in the house. Martin would have had a hernia if he saw some of the crap that we saw/encountered on the track. My mission for the night was to get past Wodj, but I met with a suspension failure early in the feature, which saw me park the 77 in the mid field. Trophys for the mini season were presented to Ronnie Wilson, division 1, and Peter MacNamara, division 2. The real season kicks off from the muster, looking forward to competing in Gero, those southeners are one up and us northeners need to take the win again at the Old boys. Catch you Crabby.

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Treasurer

LSA of WA

2011/2012 AGM & Windup

Limited Sprintcar Association of WA AGM & Windup was been run & done.

Yesterday Saturday 26^th May 2012 was the date for the occasion.

Well there was a great turnout to the AGM in Forrestfield. Much appreciated to all that made the time to come & thanks to all of you that put in your apologies.

Now feathers were ruffled, discussions were endless but the job was eventually done. With all but a few motions being addressed (this being as they were squashed in prior motions) & decided upon.

There was a big change made in the committee members for the 2012/2013 season.

Martin Laughton once again was a unanimous vote for Club President.

Shane Webster happily handed over the Vice President’s role to Chris Dicker.

Michelle Christensen’s position of Secretary was up for the taking with not a hand in sight to take over the spot so we moved on with hope that it would be filled soon.

Lilian Moreton who has been with the club for a lot of years decided it was time to hand over the reins of Treasurer – Debbie Wilson & Vanessa Armstrong put their hands up to do the job. After a little discussion & deliberation it was decided that Vanessa Armstrong was to become the new Treasurer with Debbie Wilson upping the stakes & taking on the new role of Secretary.

Committee Members have expanded to 4 with Mike Armstrong, Jason Craig, Mick Doble & Sue Wojtanowski taking up the challenge.

Technical Officer once again was taken by Gavin Davis.

Chief Stewards are the same with Peter Moreton & Martin Laughton staying put.

Handicapper is once again done by Peter Moreton.

Driver’s Reps are Mike Armstrong, Jason Craig & Mick Doble.

And a new role of Sponsors Committee has been made up of Martin Laughton, Steve Crabbe & Chris Dicker.

Apologies if I have missed anyone out. Congratulations to everyone on your new roles & we wish Lilian & Michelle all the best & THANKYOU for all your endless help & commitment to the club over the years.

A well earned beverage was had by everyone at the end of it with the gardens at the Rose & Crown being a popular choice. Relaxed discussions of Sprintcars & racing were had with the World of Outlaws in the US being a hot topic as well.

The Windup itself was a fantastic night. This as you all know was held at the Rose & Crown in Guildford. The room was setup nice, the food was fantastic & the atmosphere was alive all night. A big thanks to Shane Webster & his brother Matt for having a slide show of cars, crew, thrills & spills throughout the season on display for all to enjoy. Thanks to Stanley Trescuri, Peter French & Richard Hathaway for suppling these for use. Stanley Trescuri was still in photographer mode and was taking some great shots of the night for all to enjoy.

Trophy Time & all was hush.

 1^st on the agenda was handing out the replicas for the 2010/2011 winners. Club Champion – Annette Crabbe, Feature Race Wins – Chris Ackland, Rookie of the Year – Annette Crabbe, Most Improved – Shane Maskell & Club Person – Sue Wojtanowski.

Now for the 2011/2012 Trophy Winners 7 they are

“Overall on Points” for the season – 1^st Aldo De Paoli, 2^nd Gavin Davis & 3^rd Todd Davis.

“Club Champion” went to Aldo De Paoli.

John Green Fabrications – “Most Feature Race Wins” went to Todd Davis.

John Hatton Memorial – “Rookie of the Year” went to Aldo De Paoli.

Dave Henkey Memorial – “Most Improved” went to Ron Wilson.

And a worthy winner of the Club Person went to Lilian Moreton.

Congratulations to you all on a job well done. Aldo De Paoli had a whopper of a year & went home with a car full of trophy’s.

A BIG THANKS to this year’s committee members for putting on another great night. No doubt we are all itching for the next season to begin. All the best with car & engine rebuilds & we look forward to catching up with you all again on the track.

Written by Vanessa Armstrong

The build begins.

Well the rebuild of Annette's car has begun, for those that do not know the old car was junked at Krikke Boys this year when Annette chose the wall over hitting Gavin's car, the chassis had about 20 bends in it and while like all things it could have been repaired, it was old and fatigued so to the scrap bin it went.

We picked up a good deal from Hainsy on one of his JJ special Maxims and GKR got it across to WA for us.
These cars are unique in that they have similar mods to a Kinser Maxim but some subtle differences as well, this has me inspired to get it together so I can have a run, because we all know Maxim's are the "Old Mans Car", a lounge chair on wheels they tell me, and my first car was like that, very easy to drive and not so critical on the set up, as opposed to my J & J which you have to be on all the time or it will dump you quick as.
So we have had a dummy set up to see the fit in the car, man JJ is a small dude, we fit but to make it comfy we will get Murph the magician to push the A frame back and lift the seat height by 30mm.
So I have spent about 6 hours since Friday removing the vinyl wrap frrom the panels, never never try removing wrap from aluminium panels, what a chore, but persist we did and now we are done.
The aluminium is off to get repaired and as the fibreglass is so thin we will get the fibreglass panels reinforced to withstand the abuse Annette seems to give her cars.
Once the chassis is modified the frame and panels will go to Transcoat who do a great job of powdercoating.
So for me, I guess I can get car 56 ready for the sponsors day, looking forward to seeing just how fast this beast is.
I will start posting photos of the mission and keep you all up to date with the happenings in the cave, need something to stop the off season boredom.

Crabby

Bunbury wrap up 28-04-2012

Hi all,

Well Bunbury was not rained out there were only a few showers.
The Limited Club had 7 cars present, not bad considering the big event at Pithara.
We ran three heats and the feature although the feature was shortened due to a previous rain shower making the track slippery.
On hand to race were Todd "The Tearaway" Davis, Gavin "Mr Money Meet Winner" Davis, Aldo "The Apprentice" DeApaoli, Ron "The Drag Racer" Wilson, Jason "Steel Chassis" Craig, Chris "I am only allowed to race 4 meets don't tell my wife this is number 12" Dicker and Steve "Butter wouldnt melt in my mouth" Crabbe.
Heats were a mish mash of positions with Lillian challenging us by moving each of us around to keep the pressure on to pass.
So from my poor memory here is what I think happened.
Heat 1 was won by the fabulous driver of car 77 who pulled the the first of the two best starts of the night, and he is modest as well, off the start from 4 diving between the front row cars and dragging "The Drag Racer" down the back straight getting into three first and pulled away, what a great start to the night.
Heat two was won by Chris Dicker, it was a slick track and the tractor motor loved it, the pace was not slow either, there were 4 of us going hell for leather but the tractor was not letting anyone by.
Heat 3 was another big event, Todd cleaned it up after The Drag Racer had it sewn up only to spin, the ensuing restart saw Gavin try a big move under Todd going into one, he just couldn't make it stick though, Aldo was unlucky, twice he got past me only to have the ambers come on and relegate him back.
So into the feature we went, Jason Craig off pole, Chris Dicker off two, Ron Wilson off three, Steve Crabbe off four, Aldo off five and Todd off six.
I knew Todd and Aldo would be coming quick so it was a close the eyes and go around the outside start, coming off 4 the green lights came on, plan A went into effect foot down and up high I went and when I opened my eyes we were leading going into turn one, not sure who was next but I would guess Todd came with me, we were going quite hard and I was just really starting to get harder on the gas when a minor mishap saw my left front wheel go past me, with plenty of suction on the seat we steered the 77 machine onto the infield to watch the rest of the feature, Todd drove a faultless race from there with Aldo steering his machine into second, Chris Dicker ran third in what was his best drive to date, Ron and Jason finished in that order.
So folks that was the night that was, a great night finished with some great prizes some cold beers and a great bbq on team Davis.

Special thanks to Mandurah Bolt Supplies, for all the great prizes and Martin for organising the event.

Remember the AGM is coming up, keep your ears tuned for the date.

Crabby

Saturday at the races supporting the monster trucks.

Hi all,

Apparently while I was away some of the club members turned up to support the Monster Truck show.
There was Todd Davis, Aldo De Apaoli, Chris Dicker, Shane Maskel, Ron Wilson and Michael Andrews.

Not entirley sure of the results but Shane Maskel had a huge hit on the wall and destroyed his car totally.
Gavin tells me Chris Dicker put in a great drive and Ron Wilson in the new car was a drag racer on the straights, wheels standing high and covering the straights in no time at all.

I must say this years new drivers are standout performers, they are quick and straight.
Not sure of the current points but I would say for the second year in a row a rookie will take out club champion, hard to see anyone hauling Aldo in from here.
This Saturday sees the last club run for the season, such a pity it clashes with the Watsons all in Sprintcar Express, I for one think the Watsons Sprintcar Express meeting could become WA's best sprintcar meeting if it continues to grow, Arguably the Boys Race is the best, but for fun you just have to be at Pithara this weekend.

Geraldton weekend

Hi all,

Long time no blog, but we are coming back.

Well off to Gero we went on a raid to plunder the prizes donated by Super Cheap, we were intent on liberating the bounty for the Southeners.
Led by Mr I always win in Gero and supported by Aldo De Apaoli, Steve Crabbe, Glen Oliver and Ron Wilson.
Time trials were run and us Southeners were looking the goods, Aldo first and Gavin second.
My time came and with much embarrasment I went around at just above idle, my outside front axle held together with 3 turns of 8mm rope, we got a time though so we did not have to run from the rear.
Gavin ran into trouble in heat 1 running into a spun car dropping his driveline out, he missed his heat 2 as well.
Aldo was moving forward each heat but in heat 4 night one he had a mishap with Cale Sotiroff and Ron Wilson, photos of the final resting place of the cars are on the ltd face book page.
Glen's night was over early as well, tagging a spun car and bending the axle on the 45 car.
My night was somewhat better with 3 heat wins and a second, Andrew Pedlar passing me on the 3rd lap after the restart, during the 20 minutes it took to get Cales car off the bank I was hypnotised by water dripping from my wing, I missed all my marks for the rest of that heat.
Going into night 2 Nathan Chant was leading on 116 points and doing all he needed to take pole.
My night 2 was better than night 1 with 2 easy heat wins, the car was on rails, Ed and Mick had done an excellent job and I was not letting the team down.
After each heat I watched the next heat run, I could not believe the speed of our division, racing was intense and faster than I had seen at Geraldton before, it was a credit to all the Ltd drivers and each one should stand proud of the show they put on.

The Geraldton Club also should be proud of the meeting they organised, the only complaint being there was no Corona in the bar.
Now a certain gentleman and I have crossed swords with on the electronic media many times a couple of years ago, but he should be praised for the track preparation, it was a great track to race on, so thanks, OTL/Skeeta/Peter McNamara or any other alias you travel under, we all the drivers thank you for the work you did.
So to the feature we had Nathan off pole and myself outside, first start Martin said I jumped and pulled us up, second start we were off and around the outside I went only to have Nathan drive back under coming off 2, I chased hard for several laps before drifting up in 3 and 4 and seeing Cale and Andrew Pedlar come by, 2 laps later and under the pair I went, only to have the front brake caliper jam and bend the disc in a spectacular explosion of steel bits, this turned me hard left and the right rear tagged the wall, this filled the rim with mud and a vibration had me thinking we had torn the drive out so I rolled infield to watch the race.
Again it was stunning to watch the speed of the cars, Nathan drove a mistake free race and had a well deserved win ahead of Cale and Mick McGuiness and Andrew Pedlar, Aldo was 8th and Gavin 9th.
So the Northerners got to keep the booty, and us Southeners came away with the minors, but even the minors were great prizes.

Crabby.